• A New Species of Mimosa L. ser. Bipinnatae DC. (Leguminosae) from the Cerrado: Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Insights 

      Morales, Matias; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia; Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni (MDPI, 2020-07-24)
      Mimosa carolina (Leguminosae), a new species from the Parque Nacional Chapada das Mesas, located in the northern limit of the Brazilian Cerrado, is described and illustrated. In addition, a phylogenetic reconstruction was ...
    • A new species of Mimosa sect. Mimosa (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae) from Southern Brazil 

      Morales, Matias; Santos-Silva, Juliana; Ribas, Osmar S. (Springer, 2013-06)
      A new species of Mimosa section Mimosa, Mimosa eurystegia, which is apparently endemic to Paraná in southern Brazil, is described and illustrated. This species is distinguished by plurinerved leaflets and papyraceous, ...
    • A new species of Mimosa section Mimosa (Leguminosae) from the Paraguayan Cerrado 

      Morales, Matias; Grohar, Mariana Cecilia; Rosenfeldt, Sonia; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia (Magnolia Press, 2019-04)
      Mimosa schininii (Leguminosae), a new species from the Amambay region, in the Cerrado ecoregion of northeastern Paraguay, is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Mimosa L. section Mimosa series Mimosa ...
    • Advances in Legume Systematics 14. Classification of Caesalpinioideae. Part 2: Higher-level classification 

      Bruneau, Anne; Paganucci de Queiroz, Luciano; Ringelberg, Jens J.; Borges, Leonardo M.; Lopes da Costa Bortoluzzi, Roseli; Brown, Gillian K.; Cardoso, Domingos B. O. S.; Clark, Ruth P.; de Souza Conceição, Adilva; Martins Teixeira Cota, Matheus; Demeulenaere, Else; de Stefano, Rodrigo Duno; Ebinger, John E.; Fonseca-Cortés, Andrés; Grether, Rosaura; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau; Luckow, Melissa; Morales, Matias; Murphy, Daniel J.; Seigler, David S. (Pensoft Publishers, 2024-04-03)
      Caesalpinioideae is the second largest subfamily of legumes (Leguminosae) with ca. 4680 species and 163 genera. It is an ecologically and economically important group formed of mostly woody perennials that range from large ...
    • Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network 

      Gomes-da-Silva, Janaina; Filardi, Fabiana L.R.; Barbosa, María Regina V.; Baumgratz, José Fernando A.; Bicudo, Carlos E.M.; Cavalcanti, Taciana B.; Coelho, Marcus A.N.; Costa, Andrea F.; Costa, Denise P.; Couto Dalcin, Eduardo; Labiak, Paulo; Lima, Haroldo C.; Lohmann, , Lúcia G.; Maia, Leonor C.; Mansano, Vidal F.; Menezes, Mariângela; Morim, Marli P.; Moura, Carlos Wallace N.; Lughadha, Eimear Nic; Peralta, Denilson F.; Prado, Jefferson; Roque, Nádia; Stehmann, João Renato; Sylvestre, Lana S.; Trierveiler-Pereira, Larissa; Walter, Bruno M.T.; Zimbrão, Geraldo; Forzza, Rafaela C.; Morales, Matias (Wiley, 2022-02)
      The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiver sity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. ...
    • Chromosome studies in southern species of Mimosa (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae) and their taxonomic and evolutionary inferences 

      Morales, Matias; Wulff, Arturo Federico; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia; Poggio, Lidia (2014-05)
      In this work, chromosome numbers and karyotype parameters of 36 taxa of the genus Mimosa were studied, especially from the southern South America center of diversification. Results support that x = 13 is the basic chromosome ...
    • Crop species transferability of G-SSR and EST-SSR markers to Neltuma affinis spreng 

      Soldati, Maria Cristina; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Morales, Matias; Pomponio, Maria Florencia; Zelener, Noga (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (España), 2024-03-18)
      Aim of study: To examine the transferability of G-SSR (genomic simple sequence repeats) and EST-SSR (expressed sequence tag simple sequence repeats) markers developed for several Neltuma species to N. affinis, a species ...
    • Cytogeography and morphological characterisation of a taxonomic, polyploid complex of Mimosa (Leguminosae) from subtropical South America 

      Morales, Matias; Fradkin, Eduardo; Bessega, Cecilia Fabiana; Poggio, Lidia; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia (CSIRO Publishing, 2018)
      Mimosa subseries Dolentes Barneby and Brevipedes Barneby are ecologically and morphologically high-diversified infrageneric taxa of this genus in southern South America. We performed a cytogenetical and morphological ...
    • Diversidad y estructura genética de Prosopis affinis (Leguminosae) en paisajes fragmentados: Implicancias para su manejo y conservación. 

      Soldati, Maria Cristina; Zelener, Noga; Morales, Matias; Pomponio, Maria Florencia; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio (Red Argentina de Ciencia y Tecnología Forestal, 2023-03-26)
      La deforestación de los bosques nativos es una de las principales causas de pérdida de biodiversidad. En Argentina, la deforestación está vinculada principalmente a los cambios en el uso de la tierra a partir de la expansión ...
    • Diversity and conservation of legumes in the Gran Chaco and biogeograpical inferences 

      Morales, Matias; Oakley, Luis; Sartori, Angela L. B.; Mogni, Virginia Y.; Atahuachi, Margoth; Vanni, Ricardo O.; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia; Prado, Darién E. (Plos ONE, 2019-08-14)
      The Gran Chaco is a wide ecologic-geographic region comprising northern Argentina, western Paraguay, southern Bolivia and the southwestern extreme of Brazil. This region exhibits extreme temperatures, annually regular ...
    • Estudios genéticos poblacionales en el complejo Mimosa bifurca (Fabaceae / Leguminosae) 

      Gilszlak, J.; Inza, Maria Virginia; Calderón, Franco; Morales, Matias (Sociedad Argentina de Genética, 2023-10-01)
      Mimosa bifurca Benth se distribuye en el Sur de Sudamérica (Paraguay, Uruguay, Noreste de Argentina y Sur de Brasil). Esta especie forma un complejo taxonómico diploide con especies afines mostrando alta variación morfológica ...
    • Fire and flooding resilience in Mimosa L. of the Brazilian Pantanal 

      Nogueira Hernandes P., Luan; Morales, Matias; Sartori, Angela Lucia B. (Embrapa, 2023-08-06)
      The Pantanal ecoregion, in south-central Brazil, is one of the largest foodplains in the world. Cycles of fooding and periodic fre have been determinant to the diversity of species in the ecoregion. In the fora of Pantanal, ...
    • Increasing reports in Mimosa (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) for the Brazilian Flora 

      Morales, Matias; Ribas, Osmar S.; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia (Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 2015-06)
      Five species of Mimosa for the Brazilian Flora are reported: M. strigillosa, M. leimonias, M. petraea, M. oligophylla, and M. barnebiana. The three first ones are registered from Mato Grosso do Sul, while the remainder are ...
    • Investigating biogeographic patterns of Rhizobium leguminosarum symbiovar viciae within the tribe Fabeae 

      Trad, Rafaela; Roberts, Sarah; Morales, Matias; Young, Peter; James, Euan; Kenicer, Gregory (Embrapa, 2023-08-06)
      Nodulation is the symbiotic association of plants and diazotrophic bacteria that results in the formation of specialized organs (nodules) and allows fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Rhizobial nodulation is widespread in ...
    • Karyotype studies in Mimosa (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) from Southern South America and ecological and taxonomic relationships 

      Morales, Matias; Wulff, Arturo Federico; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia; Poggio, Lidia (Taylor & Francis, 2011)
      In this work we studied the chromosome number and karyotype formula of seven species of Mimosa L. (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae). The chromosome number 2n = 2x = 26 for M. detinens Benth., M. hex- andra M. Micheli, M. ostenii ...
    • Leaflet trichome micromorphology in the Dolentes-Brevipedes taxonomic complex (Mimosa L., Mimosoideae) 

      Grohar, Mariana Cecilia; Rosenfeldt, Sonia; Morales, Matias (Tubitak Scientific & Technical Research Council, Turquía, 2016)
      We studied leaflets of 18 taxa of the genus Mimosa, specifically the Dolentes-Brevipedes taxonomic complex, focusing on micromorphology, type, shape, and density of trichomes. Within the nonglandular trichomes we described ...
    • Lectotipificaciones en Mimosa (Leguminosae) del sur de Sudamérica 

      Morales, Matias; Calderón, Franco (Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 2018)
      Se procedió a realizar la lectotipificación de tres especímenes del género Mimosa L. que crecen en Argentina: M. obstrigosa Burkart, M. tandilensis Speg. y M. callosa var. longiracemosa Burkart. Se describe el procedimiento ...
    • Legumbres funcionales y nutracéuticas comercializadas en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina 

      Hurrell, Julio Alberto; Morales, Matias; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia (Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, 2016)
      En este trabajo se analizan datos de relevamientos etnobotánicos de especies de legumbres (Leguminosae) funcionales y nutracéuticas comercializadas en el área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina. El estudio fue realizado ...
    • Mimosa diversiplla var. subglabriseta (MimosoIdeae, Leguminosae), a new record for the flora of Paraguay 

      Luna, Javier A.; Morales, Matias; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia (Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 2012-12)
      The presence of Mimosa diversipila M. Micheli var. subglabriseta Barneby & Fortunato is now reported for first time in Paraguay. A revision of Barneby's initial description of the variety and photographs of one of the ...
    • Mimosa serra (Caesalpinioideae, Fabaceae): conservation insights and its presence in Argentina 

      Morales, Matias; Keller, Héctor; Fortunato, Renee Hersilia (Magnolia Press, 2022-11-30)
      In this work we detected the presence of Mimosa serra for the first time in Argentina and analyzed its distribution and status of conservation. In that country, it species is only known in one population in the Misiones ...